Less than a month after the Rams hired Chuck Crawford, he’s resigning to return to Atlanta for family reasons.

“It is with a heavy heart that I resign my position as assistant volleyball coach at Colorado State,” Crawford said in a news release. “My family situation has changed, and I am unable to move my family to Fort Collins due to my wife’s high-risk pregnancy. This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make.”

Crawford joined Colorado State University after spending the 2013 season at Georgia Tech coaching its middle blockers. He was hired to replace blocking coach Matt Botsford, who left the Rams to accept the head coaching position at Florida Gulf Coast.

CSU, coming off a record-setting 28-2 season and fifth consecutive Mountain West championship, will begin the search for a new assistant coach immediately. College volleyball is in the midst of a crucial recruiting period as spring practices continue, an area Crawford was in charge of.

“Family comes first,” coach Tom Hilbert said. “I have made career decisions based on family many times in the last 25 years, so I’m not upset with Chuck. We simply move forward and do what is best for Colorado State volleyball.”